Beckett and Brecht

Living the events of WW1 and the Easter 1916 incident, and then WW2, Beckett was saturated subconsciously with the atmosphere of war and action, yet some "crrrrrrrrrrrritics" complain of inaction in his plays where, they say, nothing happens, and in "Waiting for Godot", they claim, nothing happens-- twice. Brecht also lived through WW1 and WW2 and witnessed Hitler's years, but while Brecht ran away from Berlin to peace-augmented California to bask in its sunshine and the warm reception by George Tabori, Charles Laughton and Eric Bentley, Beckett "remained in Paris" which he "preferred in war to Dublin in peace"